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Africa Long Ago

Chapter 8

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Mount Kiliminjaro Africa's highest mountain peak
Africa The second largest continent and called the Dark Continent
Madagasgar The world's fourth largest island
Kingdom of Cush The greatest ancient civilization in Africa's interior
Ethiopian eunuch The first recorded African Christian
King Lalibela Carved ten churches from solid rock
James Bruce The first European explorer of Africa
Kalahari Desert The largest desert region in Southern Africa
Dr. David Livingstone The greatest of all African explorers and one of the most famous explorers in history
Victoria Falls One of the greatest natural wonders of the world, and Africa's largest waterfall
Henry Stanley Young reporter
Congo River The world's second largest river in the volume of water it carries
Liberia Africa's first black republic
Lott Carey A freed slave from Virginia
Colin Teague Lott Carey worked with him
Samuel Crowther The most famous missionary from Sierra Leone, and the first black bishop the Church of England had ever had
Khama A great African Chief
Mary Slessor Queen of the Cannibals
Mungo Park A Scottish explorer who went to western Africa and explored the Niger River
Strait of Gibralter Separates Africa from Europe
Suez Canal Separates Africa from Asia
Frumentius An early leader of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
Athanasius the Great One of the greatest leaders in history, he boldly proclaimed that Jesus is God
Aesop Greek slave who wrote famous fables
Robert Moffat One of the first missionaries in Africa
Timbuktu The city famous as a center of learning in the Mali Empire
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